Free Markets

All these laws imply that industry is made up mainly of incompetents and crooks.

Every day, before waking, I use a number of items my hands could not create in a thousand lifetimes.

Even the most mundane job involves a wealth of details that the average person often overlooks.

Chartier amasses point after point in his relentless case against the state.

From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Texans are suffering terribly. Some pray for rain. Some curse Mother Nature. They should be cursing the government and praying for freedom from the environmental bureaucrats who have caused this shortage of water. Murray Rothbard predicted this in 1993.

There can be no doubt: even a little bit of freedom lifts people up, even the poorest countries.

Will goods and resources be directed by markets or political officials? That is the great debate.

Pundits today decry the decline in the number of moderate lawmakers. They call for compromise and label any attachment to the principle of self-ownership "extremism." In 1830, Frédéric Bastiat offered a dead-on discussion of the same problem in France.